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Ha Jin

(1956) Pornographic Actor People's Republic of China

19 quotes in 98 categories

Ha Jin is a pornographic actor from People's Republic of China, best known for Waiting.

Quick Facts About Ha Jin

Born: February 21, 1956
Nationality: People's Republic of China
Profession: Pornographic Actor
Notable works: Waiting

About Ha Jin

Jin Xuefei is a Chinese American poet and novelist who uses the pen name Ha Jin (哈金). The name Ha comes from his favorite city, Harbin. His poetry is associated with the Misty Poetry movement.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

National Book Award PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award Guggenheim Fellowship Asian American Literary Awards Berlin Prize Great Immigrants Award

Quotes by Ha Jin

The more you move, the stronger you'll grow....

Gardening

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“You said, ‘Life is a tragedy, but its meaning lies in how we face the tragedy.”

Life

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When the first emperor wanted to unify the country, one of the major policies was to create one system of written signs.…

Banned

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The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.

Grows

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Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.

Baggage

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“Where should he go? He wanted to find a building out of which he could jump and kill himself. How about the…

Elementary school

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Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another…

Capable

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“We ate away, reminiscing about our victories over the enemies from different streets and villages and competing with each other in casting…

Communism

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I don’t think of myself as a dissident, and I’m more of an immigrant than an exile,

Dissidents

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No, It's hard to uproot yourself and really become yourself in another soil, but it's also an opportunity, another kind of growth.

Growth

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We can't continue to be like this. Who am I? Your fiancée or your concubine?

Breakup

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You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.

Dog

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“Without answering, he pulled the comforter over his head. If only he could sleep a few days in a row. He felt…

Felt Sorry

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English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.

Expressive

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Indifference is the strongest contempt.

Contempt

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I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.

Book

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Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small…

China

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Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.

Divorce

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“In the beginning, his holding could calm the babies, but soon they wanted more motion and wouldn't allow their father to sit…

Fatherhood

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